Tall, lacrosse, preppy Clubmaster fashion sense? Are they looking for Sterling Archer? Because I ...approve.

So I was doing historical craft research today, and found this little gem from Godey's Ladies Book, a super-popular womens magazine from 1880

What if there were Dementors, and the creepy guy was just trying to summon a Patronus? *ewwwwwwwwwww*

It's a gross and threatening act, not a Dementor attack. I don't think chocolate works for everything.

And I hate Neal Stephenson. (love his world-building, hate the writing, plot and 'characters'). If we're going to demand that people read things, I demand you read Zunshine's Why We Read Fiction! Humans read things for a remarkably wide range of psychological needs and wants and demanding that someone else like your…

You know what goes with those? This lobster gelatin that I made, which, despite what everyone else in the world thinks, LOOKS JUST LIKE A LOBSTER AND NOT ANYTHING ELSE. And it was delicious.

I don't even partake, and my first thought was: "Pretzels? How about some of them peanut butter- filled ones, like you can buy in the giant Costco bins!" See, this is why I can't smoke.

Hey, Jezzies, I need some help. I can't tell whether I'm being an unreasonable customer or not. I live in a small vacation town with a high crime rate (holla Santa Cruz), and nearly every day, I walk from home to the transit center to go up to school (...to do exciting and important PhD things, like posting to Jez),…

Right? I must be part elephant, because my eyelids are dropping after that.

Seconded.

GDC has been getting *slightly* better over the years. I've been known to high-five the other waiting ladies when there's a line (same restrooms, too, go Moscone Center West!).

Then Pod should draw a pictorial instruction guide, or work with Hot Pie to make some erotic bread-based illustrations.

UGH, noone ever cares or notices. Deborah Voight is 5 years older than her daddy Bryn Terfel in the Met Ring Cycle, which I watched in bluray (see ALL the pores), and she actually looks much much older (eh, people age at different rates), and you know what? I would not have replaced her for the world. I can't find…

Toothless looks like all cats. And also like Stitch (they were created by the same team) I love that movie. Watch it on the biggest screen you can, and pretend that you can fly.

Oh my God, don't do it! I love Paris frillyness, and musicals, and its unbearable! The plot is about a girl's older male friend seeing her growing into a 'woman' of 15 years, so her great-aunt trains her as a high-class escort so that she can be sold as his mistress. But then they realize that it's luuuuuuuurve,…

I *may* have both a Silicon Valley startup *and* a tendency to date nerds. So yes :-)

See, if we're going to do this in proper Silicon Valley style, we should invest small amounts into a large number of tech dorks, with the assumption that nearly all of them are valueless. When one starts getting media attention, we increase our investment, and get our friends to buy in, too. Then when a more mature,…

I'm a woman and I process information differently. Frequently in large batches on a computer, generating statistical analysis. #crankyAIresearcher

Also, the Barrymores have an unmatched family history of acting. I could see the pressure to add another generation to that list, and the weight of history that she'd have to resist by trying to keep her kids from her own rough history.

Dammit, this is terrible statistical analysis, and likely to just give you the most common female names.